Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley is a senior writer at SiliconANGLE covering Startups, Bitcoin, and the Internet of Things. Duncan is a co-founder of VC funded media company B5Media and founder of news site The Inquisitr, and was a senior writer at TechCrunch in its earlier days. Tips? Press releases? Intersting startup? email: duncan@nichenet.com.au or contact Duncan on Twitter @duncanriley

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Credit card details stolen as Macy’s becomes the latest Magecart victim

Macy’s Inc. is the latest company to be hacked in an apparent “Magecart” attack resulting in customer credit card details stolen from its website. The hack was first detected on Oct. 15, though it’s believed to have taken place Oct. 7 when “unauthorized” code injected in the checkout pages and wallet page of Macys.com. Data ...

Business email compromise startup Abnormal Security raises $24M

Business email compromise cybersecurity startup Abnormal Security Corp. launched its services today with a Series A funding round of $24 million led by Greylock Partners. Founded in 2018 by Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar, both previously employees of Twitter Inc., Abnormal Security has built a data science and behavioral analysis platform designed to protect organizations from sophisticated, targeted ...

Slack’s shares plunge as Microsoft Teams passes 20M daily active users

Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Teams online collaboration service has now passed 20 million daily active users, causing stock in rival Slack Inc. to plunge Tuesday. An increase of just over 50% on the 13 million users Teams had in July, the figure is notable not only because the service continues to grow rapidly ...

Android flaw allows malicious apps to take photos and videos without permission

A newly revealed flaw in camera apps used by Android devices allows other apps to spy on users. Even though both Google LLC and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. released patches to fix the issue, the vulnerability may also exist in devices made by other manufacturers. Detailed today by security researchers at Checkmarx Ltd., the vulnerability was ...

At Dreamforce, Salesforce doubles down on voice and customer tracking

Salesforce.com Inc. today announced a variety of new features and services at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco aimed at helping companies improve interactions with customers. Leading the announcements are new declarative tools that are designed to allow any developer or administrator to build customized voice assistants for employees across any role or industry. Called ...

Criminals are using Bluetooth to target vehicles containing valuables

Criminals in the San Francisco Bay Area are using Bluetooth to identify valuables in cars. Wired reported today that criminals are using Bluetooth scanners to identify vehicles with phones, laptops and other devices with Bluetooth turned on. Having detected those devices, the criminals then break into the vehicles to steal them. In a twist, the very same ...

Thousands of Disney+ accounts hacked a week after launch

A week after launching, Disney+, the online subscription streaming service from the Walt Disney Company has been hacked and thousands of users found their account details compromised. The compromised accounts are being sold for between $3 and $11 each on the dark web, ZDNet reported Saturday, but the how they were compromised remains officially unknown. Disney+ users started ...

Apple announces unexpected December event to honor apps and games – and more?

Apple Inc. today announced a press event for Dec. 2 in New York City “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” at which it could reveal a new product. Or not. The best guess at this stage — and guessing is where the tech press is at as the announcement was completely unexpected — is that ...

Some Fitbit users are ditching their devices over Google data privacy concerns

Google LLC’s acquisition of smart watch maker Fitbit Inc. for $2.1 billion Nov. 1 has not been received well by all FitBit fans, as some claim to be ditching their devices over data privacy concerns. For a story published today, CNBC interviewed several Fitbit users who are claiming to have abandoned their Fitbit devices in favor ...

Huawei’s license to access US technology extended for 90 days

Updated: Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.’s current license extension to access U.S. technology is set to expire Monday amid rumors previously circulating that it would be granted another 90-day extension — but in a surprise twist, a new report claims the extension will be for only two weeks. Reuters, quoting two sources familiar with the matter ...